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This paper describes a cost effective image capture system for remote monitoring and surveillance on rangelands properties. Camera units positioned around a property transmit images using radio to a standard personal computer, which acts as a central controller and database. Using this computer an operator can monitor live images or review recorded footage. This system forms a crucial component of Remote Information Management Systems (RIMS), a radio network proposed by Chung (2002) for remote monitoring and automation on rangeland properties. To facilitate low bandwidth and robust transmission, captured images are first compressed by the wavelet transform followed by an appropriate encoding process to ensure low sensitivity to channel errors. Some results are presented showing the high levels of compression that could be achieved. As compressed images are highly sensitive to transmission errors, current research is aimed at devising an effective way to resynchronise the image data after channel errors have occurred. This is to be achieved without

incurring significant overheads.